14521 2011-10-20 10:01:18 +0000 Why does <fieldset> have <legend> but <table> have <caption> ? I think they both ought to use either <legend> or <caption>. This would eliminate a tag and reduce complexity. Both <legend> and <caption> are basically the same thing anyways? 2011-10-20 10:08:02 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 58528 0 contributor 2011-10-20 10:01:18 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: Why does <fieldset> have <legend> but <table> have <caption> ? I think they both ought to use either <legend> or <caption>. This would eliminate a tag and reduce complexity. Both <legend> and <caption> are basically the same thing anyways? Posted from: 212.247.162.243 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 58530 1 zcorpan 2011-10-20 10:08:02 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: We can't change this because it would break the web.